Re: Apple Cinema Display? or do I have a problem?
Re: Apple Cinema Display? or do I have a problem?
- Subject: Re: Apple Cinema Display? or do I have a problem?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 17:18:44 EST
In a message dated 12/12/01 4:38:01 PM, email@hidden writes:
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Man is this thing view angle dependent!. Apple says 160degs of view, I
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don't think so!.
You do get a bit more used to it with time...
Okay, now for the question.
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My new out of the box Cinema Display appears to be lighter on one side
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than the other (L2R).
That is not good, not correctable with settings or calibration, and is cause
for a replacement unit... though Apple may not see it that way!
Is it me and a view
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angle issue or do I have a problem with the display?
Sounds like the last...
How far should I be
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away from the monitor for proper viewing?
The device is not distance dependant; except that they seem to have corrected
for viewing angle divergence a bit in the plastic "fresnel" that in the
screen...
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Why does the screen reflect every light source in the room, even a monitor
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from across the room?
Remember "glareless" glass for picture frames; and how it made it glare a
little from all angles, instead of a lot from just a couple? Same deal here;
doesn't strike me as much worse than antiglare CRTs though...
And one last
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question, why are these things better than CRTs?
They are free from refresh flutter (though some have Fluorescent tube flutter
instead) and the text should stay crisp indefinately, instead of getting soft
with age... and you can run them at higher luminnance levels, to name a few.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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